Dwight D. Eisenhower
25 quotations
I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
Only Americans can hurt America.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Pessimism never won any battle.
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.
The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
Biggest damfool mistake I ever made.